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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

rootstraveler.com

RootsTraveler | How To Travel The World By Hiking & Backpacking Around The World

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

289 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

702 ms

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About Website

Welcome to rootstraveler.com homepage info - get ready to check Roots Traveler best content right away, or after learning these important things about rootstraveler.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rootstraveler.com page load time and found that the first response time was 289 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rootstraveler.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rootstraveler.com

289 ms

ga.js

10 ms

vvq-jquery-ui.css

158 ms

jquery.alerts.css

159 ms

popup.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Rootstraveler.com, 5% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1000 ms) belongs to the original domain Rootstraveler.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rootstraveler.com main page is 1.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 83.0 kB

  • Original 99.7 kB
  • After minification 91.4 kB
  • After compression 16.7 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 83.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 77.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Roots Traveler images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 293.1 kB
  • After minification 293.1 kB
  • After compression 282.9 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 88.1 kB
  • After minification 88.1 kB
  • After compression 83.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Rootstraveler.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (59%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Roots Traveler. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rootstraveler.com

rootstraveler.com

289 ms

ga.js

ga.js

10 ms

vvq-jquery-ui.css

vvq-jquery-ui.css

158 ms

jquery.alerts.css

jquery.alerts.css

159 ms

popup.css

popup.css

166 ms

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171 ms

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172 ms

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174 ms

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236 ms

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238 ms

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251 ms

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257 ms

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256 ms

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259 ms

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313 ms

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427 ms

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341 ms

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342 ms

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345 ms

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392 ms

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395 ms

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444 ms

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445 ms

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446 ms

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470 ms

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473 ms

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512 ms

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512 ms

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513 ms

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516 ms

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548 ms

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49 ms

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570 ms

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597 ms

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599 ms

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600 ms

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602 ms

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44 ms

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44 ms

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12 ms

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17 ms

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13 ms

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553 ms

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518 ms

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546 ms

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540 ms

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535 ms

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536 ms

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538 ms

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489 ms

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588 ms

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160 ms

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219 ms

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584 ms

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584 ms

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585 ms

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620 ms

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620 ms

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620 ms

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619 ms

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782 ms

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780 ms

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780 ms

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929 ms

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785 ms

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787 ms

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787 ms

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14 ms

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1000 ms

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828 ms

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829 ms

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830 ms

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6 ms

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35 ms

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72 ms

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ad_status.js

179 ms

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132 ms

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30 ms

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133 ms

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15 ms

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92 ms

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93 ms

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90 ms

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92 ms

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90 ms

Accessibility Review

rootstraveler.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

rootstraveler.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rootstraveler.com SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rootstraveler.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Rootstraveler.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

rootstraveler.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Roots Traveler. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: